Gene Stratton-Porte was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, and one of the earliest women to form a movie studio and production company. She wrote some of the best selling novels and well-received columns in magazines of the day.Her last novel, Her Father's Daughter, was set in Los Angeles, California to which she had moved in the 1920s to expand her business ventures into the movie industry. She was engaged in the planning of a home and work place on Catalina Island. She and her driver, died in Los Angeles in 1924 in a traffic accident.